Evelyn Woolison's Book The Times of My Life.
A compelling story of the life of Evelyn Woolison, born in 1911 in Chester le Street, County Durham. It charts the early, difficult, but happy years of her life and her family and he life at Houghton Hall.
It shows how forward thinking she was when, at her 18th birthday, she says, "What is going to happen in the future in County Durham, I did not get a shilling extra and the young people were leaving the North in droves, there was so much work in the South."
She moved to Banbury, Oxfordshire, and from there to Houghton Hall in Houghton Regis to work for Lt Col Part. She recalls the vast grounds and kitchen garden. A vivid recollection was the Hunt of which Lt Col Part was the Master.
All-in-all an excellent read giving a very good flavour of the times and places in which she lived.
A review by Roger Turner, Houghton Regis Heritage Society.
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